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The Political Economy of Italy s Decline
Author | : Andrea Lorenzo Capussela |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780192517340 |
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Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From this spiral has emerged an equilibrium as consistent as it is inefficient, that raises serious obstacles to economic and democratic development. The Political Economy of Italy's Decline explains the causes of Italy's downward trajectory, and explains how the country can shift to a fairer and more efficient system. Analysing both political economic literature and the history of Italy from 1861 onwards, The Political Economy of Italy's Decline argues that the deeper roots of the decline lie in the political economy of growth. It places emphasis on the country's convergence to the productivity frontier and the evolution of its social order and institutions to illuminate the origins and evolution of the current constraints to growth, using institutional economics and Schumpeterian growth theory to support its findings. It analyses two alternative reactions to the insufficient provision of public goods: an opportunistic one – employing tax evasion, corruption, or clientelism as means to appropriate private goods –- and one based on enforcing political accountability. From the perspective of ordinary citizens and firms such social dilemmas can typically be modelled as coordination games, which have multiple equilibria. Self-interested rationality can thus lead to a spiral, in which several mutually reinforcing vicious circles lead society onto an inefficient equilibrium characterized by low political accountability and weak rule of law. The Political Economy of Italy's Decline follows the gradual setting in of this spiral as it identifys the deeper causes of Italy's decline.
Political Economy of Contemporary Italy
Author | : Nicolò Giangrande |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781000478778 |
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Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches, Political Economy of Contemporary Italy: The Economic Crisis and State Intervention explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis. The central thesis of the book is that from the early 1990s Italy experienced a constant reduction of both private and public investment which, combined with increasing labour precariousness and wage moderation, contributed to the decline of both labour productivity and economic growth. It is argued that lack of industrial policies amplified the problem of the poor macroeconomic performance, since Italian firms – small-sized and non-innovating – were incapable of staying competitive on the global scene. Net exports did not compensate for the decline of public spending, private investment and consumption. It is also shown that, in these respects, Italy presents an interesting case study with wider ramifications for it was involved in the global process of intensifying the neoliberal agenda but at a faster rate than other OECD countries. The book concludes with a call for an alternative economic policy in order to promote innovation, reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the recent history of the European economy, Italian studies and the history of economic thought.
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy
Author | : Carlo Bastasin,Gianni Toniolo |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781009235358 |
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Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present day. They show how, thirty years after unification, Italy began a long phase of convergence with more advanced economies so that by the late twentieth century Italy's per capita income reached the levels of Germany, France and the UK. From the mid-1990s, however, the Italian economy declined first in relative and then absolute terms. The authors describe the intertwined financial and institutional crises that eroded trust in the political system and in the economy at the exact juncture when new technologies and markets transformed the global economy. Longstanding problems of uneven levels of education and obsolete bureaucratic and judicial practices deepened the division between economically vibrant regions and the rest, causing polarization, political instability and rising public debt. Italy's contemporary malaise makes the country a test-case for understanding the implications of protracted declines in productivity and the flattening of GDP growth for the stability of western democracies, resulting in populism, mistrust and political instability.
Family Political Economy and Demographic Change
Author | : David I. Kertzer,Dennis P. Hogan |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299121941 |
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Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change represents an unprecedented interdisciplinary effort to discover how changes in family life and demographic behavior actually occurred in this crucial period, and how people's lives were affected. The book takes issue with a number of the most influential demographic and sociological theories dealing with the evolution of the Western family and the factors responsible for fertility decline. As in so many other parts of Europe, the northern Italian community of Casalecchio experienced massive social and economic changes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Characterized by sharecropping agriculture and large, complex family households, the community faced the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and dramatic political change. Making use of unusually rich archival sources to reconstruct the live of 19,000 people who lived in Casalecchio during this period, Kertzer and Hogan challenge many current generalizations regarding the emergence of modern European society.
After the Three Italies
Author | : Michael Dunford,Lidia Greco |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-07-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781444355482 |
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After the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance. Responds to recent theoretical debates in economic geography, involving economists, geographers and planners. Builds the foundations for a new theoretical approach to regional economic development and the territorial division of labour. Draws on the results of a recent ESRC funded research project, as well as on a large range of official data sets. Provides an up-to-date picture of Italy's economic performance and of its recent development relative to other European countries and the rest of the world. Analyses Italy's internal differentiation and its persistent regional inequalities. Examines the regional impact of the recent evolution of the car, chemicals, steel and clothing industries. Leads to a new and more complex picture of Italian development.
Decline and Economic Ideals in Italy in the Early Modern Age
Author | : Gino Barbieri |
Publsiher | : Ad Ilissum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 8822263014 |
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What did the Italians think of money and wealth during the Renaissance? In this work published for the first time in 1940, Gino Barbieri traces the evolution of Italian economic ideals through the analysis of the writings of theologians, men of law and of business. The book, now in English translation, reveals astounding similarities between the pi
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Author | : Mancur Olson |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780300254068 |
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"A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.
Remaking the Italian Economy
Author | : Richard M. Locke |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781501731914 |
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